She is the youngest of six Trogneux children and her family are famous chocolatiers in the region of Amiens. Les Trogneux is famous for its macaroons.

There is a 24-year age gap between 64-year-old Trogneux and 39-year-old Macron.

Trogneux was Macron's drama teacher. They met at the Jésuites de la Providence lycée, in Amiens, when he was 15. Footage has emerged on social media of the pair sharing their "first kiss" (on the cheek) when he was a student and she was a married teacher.

Macron was reportedly packed off to Paris to finish his studies when news broke of his close bond with the married mother of three. Trogneux told Paris Match magazine that, at 17, Emmanuel told her: "Whatever you do, I will marry you."

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Trogneux divorced her banker husband and father of her children, André-Louis Auzière, in 2006, and married Macron the following year.

They live together in Le Touquet, a commune near Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. Below, Trogneux speaks with the press outside their home.

The pair are reportedly 'keen anglophiles.' Trogneux told the press: ‘We both absolutely love Britain, and make sure we visit every year ... We go to plays in London, but Emmanuel and I are great strollers too. We love to go on long walks through the city, and to speak to people. We love walking.'

They also appear to be keen skiers. Here, Trogneux and Macron smile for cameras as they take a chairlift up to the mountain top for a lunch break during a campaign visit to Bagneres-de-Bigorre, in the Pyrenees in Southwestern France.

The future first lady is apparently a regular at Paris Fashion Week, but recently swapped the front row to support her husband in his presidential campaign.

According to Macron's biographer, Anne Fulda, the future president of France has only ever had one girlfriend of his own age — the only other relationship he has ever had, which she says is "quite exceptional today."